# Gorakhpur woman alleges husband assaulted her over period during honeymoon 2026-08-16T18:23:08+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 2 independent outlets A Gorakhpur woman has accused her husband Nikhil Mishra of assaulting her during their honeymoon in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands after she got her period. Police have booked Mishra, his mother Sanju Mishra and his sister Neha Pandey following the complaint, which also includes allegations of dowry harassment and threats. The woman alleged that Mishra slapped, kicked and punched her and tried to strangle her after becoming angry over her menstruation, hotel staff intervened after hearing her screams, she said. The couple married on May 30, 2023, in Delhi. India Today reports that the woman's father gave around Rs 20 lakh in cash, a car and other items worth about Rs 40 lakh as dowry, and that her in-laws had insisted on branded items before the wedding. Rediff.com says she was taunted and humiliated over dowry after moving to her marital home. During the honeymoon on July 4, the woman said she developed severe abdominal pain and heavy bleeding due to her period, and her husband assaulted her and later asked her father to take her back. The woman claims she was thrown out of the marital home on July 14, 2023, about 45 days after the wedding, and that her dowry items were not returned while her husband kept sending threatening messages. Ramgarhtal SHO Shyama Nand Rai confirmed the FIR was registered on August 15 and said further action would be based on evidence collected during the investigation. ## Coverage - indiatoday.in - rediff.com This story was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above. Updated: this story now draws on 2 sources. Last updated 2026-08-16T19:40:45+00:00. Tags: Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Delhi, Dowry, Gorakhpur Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/woman-alleges-husband-assaulted-her-on-andaman-honeymoon-over-period/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/woman-alleges-husband-assaulted-her-on-andaman-honeymoon-over-period/#story-in-brief How this brief was made: an AI model read the reports linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. Stance labels are editorial classifications of how each outlet framed this story, assigned by the same model, not ratings of the outlets. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/